Location: Realm of Unrestricted Science

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Dominion of Deus Est Machina is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its complete lack of prisons. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 565 million hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Education, although Healthcare and Social Equality are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zero One. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 58%. A healthy private sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry.

Senior citizens can usually be found doing heavy manual labour, the government is promoting multicultural values with the new 'Just Be Nice, OK?' initiative, school uniforms are compulsory, and the government is notorious for leaving citizens with almost nothing from their inheritance. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is a problem, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Deus Est Machina's national animal is the elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the info.

Deus Est Machina is ranked 22nd in Realm of Unrestricted Science and 22,930th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and